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You said that if you were in his place, you'd be singing all the time." "And I would." "Then sing for me for Angus and me tonight when we're sitting by the fire. He's fallen into a brooding melancholy, and I can't altogether trust him. Can you understand?" "And I'm to do the cheering up?" "You won't fail me?"
She made a dash for the table where were pens and ink and on one sheet scrawled: "Certainly. Bring him," appending her initials; on the other the word "Impossible," and her full name. Then she hurried the letters into Shima's hands, lest her courage should fail her lest she should regret her choice. "Anywhere, at any time, to-night," she repeated softly. Why, the man must be mad!
The facile and constant quotation from the ancient classics show how constantly and thoroughly the latter were studied. Among early New England publications we must not fail to speak of the omnipresent almanac.
This temper could not fail to be viewed with interest by the neighboring powers, who had been encouraged by it and by the imbecility of the government, to enter into intrigues of an alarming nature.
While all these pleasing occupations proceeded, the hour of Cudmore's trial was approaching. The tea-pot which had stood the attack of fourteen cups without flinching, at last began to fail, and discovered to the prying eyes of Mrs.
Such characters in the book of Nature the explorer cannot fail to read, as we afterwards saw numerous native foot-marks all about. When we arrived with the camels at this newly-discovered liquid gem, I found it answered to Tommy's description.
I may catch him and yet fail to arrest his evil work that's a funny word, 'evil, for everyday people to use, but there's no other like it. To-morrow, whether I catch him or not, I will tell you the story of the plot I accidentally discovered. The British Government thinks that I have got on the track of a big thing so does Washington, and I'm having all the help I want."
Between these two ways of it, at least, the reader will probably not fail to find a third definition of his own; and it follows, on one or other, that a man may pay too dearly for his livelihood, by giving, in Thoreau's terms, his whole life for it, or, in mine, bartering for it the whole of his available liberty, and becoming a slave till death.
'I should like to speak to him, if I dared, but I think my courage will fail; it is not so easy as you think. And then as we went downstairs she took my arm, and I could feel that her hand was very cold. 'I wish he had not asked you to come: it shows he is hurt with me; but all the same I should have asked you myself.
He happened to find the explanation that he must give Phillis, and as he wished to avoid the surprise that she would not fail to show if she saw him suddenly without hair and beard, he would give this explanation before having them cut, in such a way that all at once and without looking for another reason, she would understand that this operation was indispensable.
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